I think the person who came out with that service is probably having fun.
(SingTel Comcenter building at Somerset.)
GIRO-On-Demand
GIRO-On-Demand (GOOD) is a flexible on-line payment mode that let you control how much you want to pay and when you want to pay. It allows you to pay your SingTel bills as well as for others. With GOOD, you initiate when and how much to be deducted from your nominated bank account. It is a convenient and secure on-line payment mode that does not require you to open an Internet banking account. You just need to sign up a one-time GOOD application form to perform your payment transactions.
“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs.
Sentence construction
The sentence is unpunctuated and uses three different readings of the word “buffalo”. In order of their first use, these are:
c. The city of Buffalo, New York (or any other place named “Buffalo”), which is used as an adjective in the sentence and is followed by the animal;
a. The animal buffalo, in the plural (equivalent to “buffaloes”), in order to avoid articles and is used as a noun;
v. The verb “buffalo” meaning to bully, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
It may be revealing to read the sentence replacing all instances of the animal buffalo with “people” and the verb buffalo with “intimidate”. The sentence then reads
“Buffalo people [whom] Buffalo people intimidate [also happen to] intimidate Buffalo people.”
Preserving the meaning more closely, substituting the synonym “bison” for “buffalo” (animal), “bully” for “buffalo” (verb) and leaving “Buffalo” to mean the city, yields
If you’re a regular visitor to Digg, you will know and understand that somebody had to say this sooner or later… Here are 20 words you can use for your headlines instead of the word AMAZING…
Unimaginable
Unanticipated
Phenomenal
Remarkable
Unbelievable
Breathtaking
Tremendous
Unexpected
Spectacular
Unthinkable
Unforeseen
Significant
Stunning
Startling
Splendid
Wonderful
Overwhelming
Stupefying
Staggering
Unpredicted
I’ve got to use some of these words. I keep using amazing, awesome and blah blah. It sounds kinda boring already.
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In the video, a girl is attempting to teach how to say some sex related conversations. I have no idea what some phrases mean. It supposed to be dirty but it just didn’t turn out sexy - just funny. One Point English Lessons.
The television programmes in Japan are just so strange. These Japanese are learning English in the form of aerobics. It sounds silly to me. This one’s Zuiikin English.
I see how these Ajax things are getting more interesting already. It’s not the best Ajax implementation that I’ve seen, but Dictionary.hm does searches quite well generally.
My only complaint is that it seemed slow. A progress bar would be good. It would be even better if it can suggest the words that you are typing too.
